So today is the day, has EU banned memes yet?
So today is the day, has EU banned memes yet?
Parker King
Austin Adams
They voted against in the parliament. It's getting discussed again in September, but for now, it's going back.
Jace Hernandez
I fucking wish man
too many wojak and pepe edits floating around
if they banned that shit, people would be forced to make OC. enter a new golden age.
Kevin Baker
278 in favor, 318 against. Too close for my liking.
Aiden Sullivan
Let's bully those 278 fuckwits on social media.
Hunter Reed
>his country's representatives didn't all vote against
Wyatt Walker
I'll bite, but with a sage - how does this affect memes and why is it significant to that extent?
Landon Thomas
It doesn't.
it's just retarded tweens oversimplifying a copyright law.
Blake White
That's exaggeration and something that wouldn't happen. It's merely reddit being reddit again and blowing shit out of proportion to gain traction.
That's not to say this law wasn't awful anyway. It basically proposes a filter on every single upload anyone makes to any website, be it text, image, binary, anything and everything. That filter would then screen your file for copyrighted content, and deny the upload if any were to be found. This would even apply to online git repos, such as GitHub and others, to screen the code you upload, even to private repos, to see if any of it is copyrighted.
The EU would only enforce this, and not to the screening themselves. The filter would have to be implemented by website owners themselves.
It's basically a copyright law through and through, except now, the EU wants website owners to actually enforce them. The way they want everyone to do this is laughable, as it is simply put, impossible to do even with today's technology, given the amount of uploads and user input every day in the entire world. That still doesn't stop them from trying anyway. Guess that's what happens when the people writing the law bills have absolutely no expertise whatsoever in the area they're trying to legislate, along with being lobbied by people from big companies who don't know shit either.
Camden Jackson
True. But at least there's no reason for anyone to burn down the streets or whatever now. Still, not a fight that is really won yet.
Plus as long as it's easy, the intellectual property lobby will try again. They always did, and this is why we probably don't see copyright for anything expiring within our lifetime.